Aeschylus
Aeschylus
Aeschyluswas an ancient Greek tragedian. His plays, alongside those of Sophocles and Euripides, are the only works of Classical Greek literature to have survived. He is often described as the father of tragedy: critics and scholars' knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences from his surviving plays. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in theater to allow conflict among them, whereas characters previously had interacted only...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
wrath parent
Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.
men deeds looks
No man looks with love on deeds that to the high Gods hateful prove.
soulmate heart passion
But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.
book men justice
You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering.
light sea sky
No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts; and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath.
men talking mind
Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.
suffering way ive-learned
I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.
women dying rumor
Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.
men afterlife justice
For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.
hungry wailing aloof
Hungry wailing standeth not aloof.
hands zeus hephaestus
The will was of Zeus, the hand of Hephaestus.
god destiny towns
The saying goes that the gods leave a town once it is captured.
men long safe
As long as there are men the bulwark is safe.
pain rewards
The reward of pain is experience.